RUSSIAN MUSIC OF THE TURN OF THE 19TH – 20TH CENTURIES AS THE EXPRESSION THE SOUL OF THE RUSSIAN CULTURE

Abstract

The paper addresses the example of the art of music to discuss the uniqueness of the soul of Russian culture of the 19th – 20th centuries. Russian music was an important part of the wide synthesis of arts at that time. The exchange of ideas and images between music, poetry, painting, literature and philosophy played a fruitful role in the development of each of these types of creativity. The soul of the Russian culture found its expression in all these forms of art, but music played a special role there. A number of essential characteristics of the soul of the Russian culture of the 19th – 20th centuries found their expression of in the works of the composers S. I. Taneyev, A. N. Skryabin, I. F. Stravinsky: commonality (manifested in choral and symphonic arts), elevation, irrationality, “vexation of the spirit”, aspiration for Beauty, romanticism, correlation of cosmic and terrestrial, sacred and profane, “struggle” between the divine and the human.

Keywords

• russian music, russian culture, soul of culture, s. i. taneyev, s. v. rakhmaninov, a. n. scryabin, spirit, soul, unity, national spirit, artistic synthesis, synthesis of arts, divine, human, space, earth